s who want to learn about Russia along with learning Russian on the intermediate/advanced level (approximately 60-80 academic hours). The manual contains texts on various topics that cover different aspects of Russian life. Each chapter is independent from the others. This manual is intended for foreign students at an intermediate to advanced level, and for anyone who wants to better understand...

This one is very gloomy but without the dramatic battles and mayhem found in other Russian novels. This is a grim study of a spiritually bankrupt country split by greed and selfishness. A very bitter portrayal of Russia.

The Danish novelist, poet and playwright Hans Christian Andersen is known throughout the world primarily as a storyteller. His tales and stories have been translated into more than 100 languages. The strength and immortality of Andersen's fairy tales lies in the fact that they are poetic, wise, imbued with goodness, love for nature and beauty in all its manifestations. Many heroes of his...

The first, modern, post-Soviet biography of the scientist-encyclopedist and poet Mikhail Lomonosov, one of the main pillars of modern Russian culture. The author used not only archival materials and documents, but also the writings of Lomonosov's contemporaries to complete the picture of the man in the context of his time.

A major contribution to the historiography of twentieth century Russia, The Bolsheviks in Power shines a revealing spotlight on the fateful first year of Soviet rule in Petrograd. It examines events that profoundly shaped the Soviet political system that endured through generations.

A revisionist look at Khrushchev and his denunciation of Stalin and Stalin's terror.

Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great love the Count Axel von Fersen. Zweig analyzes the chemistry of a woman’s soul from her intimate pleasures to her public suffering as a Queen under the weight of misfortune and history. Zweig describes Marie Antoinette in the...

В процессе формирования тоталитарного режима в Советской России переломным моментом явился 1922 г. Переход к нэпу ознаменовался ужесточением борьбы с инакомыслящими: политическими оппонентами, Церковью, интеллигенцией и др. В сборнике впервые объединен корпус основных источников, содержащих сведения о репрессивной политике советской власти в конце 1921 - начале 1923 годов, кульминацией...